[Bug 237231] New: mail() function is disabled in PHP 4 package for OpenSuSE 10.2
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237231 Summary: mail() function is disabled in PHP 4 package for OpenSuSE 10.2 Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: i386 URL: http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/michal- m:/php4/openSUSE_10.2/ OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mlemos@acm.org QAContact: qa@suse.de The mail() function is disabled in PHP 4 package for OpenSuSE 10.2 available from http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/michal-m:/php4/openSUSE_10.2/ . This usually happens when PHP is built in an environment on which the sendmail (or equivalent) executable is not in the path of the user running the configure script. This may occur when the user is not root or sendmail nor an equilavent MTA is not installed in the current machine. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237231 judas_iscariote@shorewall.net changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |judas_iscariote@shorewall.net AssignedTo|bnc-team- |mmarek@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | ------- Comment #1 from judas_iscariote@shorewall.net 2007-01-21 18:43 MST ------- Hi Manuel ;) welcome to openSUSE. As you may know, PHP4 is no longer officially supported in openSUSE, this is since version 10.1. This package is unnoficial, and I no longer work mantaining PHP4 only PHP5. I'll assign this bug to the mantainer of this unnoficial package, and let him to decide. Just use PHP5 and all will be fine, this packages have a very low priority and are mantained strictly for security fixed only. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237231 ------- Comment #2 from mlemos@acm.org 2007-01-21 19:28 MST ------- Thank you Christian. I do not use RPM packages for PHP in production because I compile PHP manually to be linked as a module of Apache 1.3.x. PHP 4 static linked with Apache 1.3.x can run much more efficently than with Apache 2, even more than PHP 5 with Apache 2. So I am not concerned with the PHP version supported by SuSE . I just reported this problem because I just upgraded my development machine to OpenSuSE 10.2 and I could not find the e-mail address of who packaged the PHP 4 release. The problem does not affect me much as I do not use my development machine to send e-mail of my PHP sites. BTW, before OpenSuSE newer versions adoption is also affected, you may want to review these statistics of adoption of PHP versions. As you may notice all PHP 5 releases only achieved 13% of all servers with PHP after more than 2 years of the first release. At the same time PHP 4.4 releases achieved more than 44%, even though PHP 4.4 was released one year after PHP 5.0 . The reason for this is mostly due to excessive backwards incompatible changes that break existing sites when switching to PHP 5. I thought you may want to be aware of this when dealing with the consequences of dropping support to PHP 4. http://www.nexen.net/chiffres_cles/phpversion/evolution_de_php_sur_internet_... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237231 ------- Comment #3 from judas_iscariote@shorewall.net 2007-01-21 19:43 MST ------- (In reply to comment #2)
Thank you Christian.
I do not use RPM packages for PHP in production because I compile PHP manually to be linked as a module of Apache 1.3.x. PHP 4 static linked with Apache 1.3.x can run much more efficently than with Apache 2, even more than PHP 5 with Apache 2.
the is afaics a myth.
BTW, before OpenSuSE newer versions adoption is also affected, you may want to review these statistics of adoption of PHP versions.
Chiken an egg problem , people wont move to PHP5 if we still support PHP4. this descision was taken about more than a year ago ( fedora, Redhat(for rhel5) SLES, Ubuntu) and many other has taken the same steps. In the openSUSE case, this is desicsion was taken strictly due to a manteniance costs, and the lack of attention of php4 from upstream.(aka,it is dead) this is not going to change, at anytime soon, soem issue with apache1. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237231 ------- Comment #4 from mlemos@acm.org 2007-01-21 21:56 MST -------
Thank you Christian.
I do not use RPM packages for PHP in production because I compile PHP manually to be linked as a module of Apache 1.3.x. PHP 4 static linked with Apache 1.3.x can run much more efficently than with Apache 2, even more than PHP 5 with Apache 2.
the is afaics a myth.
I don't know what myth you are talking about, but I certainly would like to know about any demonstration that contradict the conclusions of this benchmark performed by Ilia Alshanetsky, a reputed core PHP developer. http://ilia.ws/archives/32-Apache-1-vs-Apache-2-Performance.html
BTW, before OpenSuSE newer versions adoption is also affected, you may want to review these statistics of adoption of PHP versions.
Chiken an egg problem , people wont move to PHP5 if we still support PHP4. this descision was taken about more than a year ago ( fedora, Redhat(for rhel5) SLES, Ubuntu) and many other has taken the same steps.
In the openSUSE case, this is desicsion was taken strictly due to a manteniance costs, and the lack of attention of php4 from upstream.(aka,it is dead)
this is not going to change, at anytime soon, soem issue with apache1.
I am not disputing Novell/SuSE decisions. I am just sharing my opinion that the 86% PHP 4 adoption will not drop anytime soon in the current installations that run it PHP 4 now. The problem has nothing to do with whether Linux distributions or PHP core developers state they are not supporting PHP 4 anymore. The real problem is that it costs time and money to site owners that to fix their PHP 4 applications to make them work in PHP 5. A lot of the site owners rather stick to old unsupported versions than dealing with the upgrade nightmares to backwards incompatible versions. As for the lack of upstream attention to PHP 4, maybe you are not aware PHP 4.4.5RC1 was released a few days ago. PHP 4 was closed to new features a long time ago. You can say almost the same about PHP 5, as most of the new development is focused in PHP 6. Anyway, this is just my opinion. I depend on their sites to not break to make a living. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237231 mmarek@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED ------- Comment #5 from mmarek@novell.com 2007-01-22 02:00 MST ------- Can be that I missed some build dependency when moving the package to the buildservice, I'll have a look. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237231 mmarek@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Comment #6 from mmarek@novell.com 2007-01-23 06:32 MST ------- I added postfix to BuildRequires:, fixed packages are building currently. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
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